Zahra Rahnavard as President of Iran?

What if in 2009, reformist opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi wins the Presidential election and succeeds Ahmadinejad. However several days before or after he assumes the Presidency he is assasinated by a rogue, disgruntled Ahmadinejad-supporting Basiji member. Mousavi's supporters then decide to make his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, the first female President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

What happens from there?

Zahra-Rahnavard-001.jpg
 

Cook

Banned
Make an unelected individual the President?

I’m guessing the Iranian Republic has a more organised line of succession than just grabbing a relative; it’s a Presidency, not a Monarchy.
 

MacCaulay

Banned
Make an unelected individual the President?

I’m guessing the Iranian Republic has a more organised line of succession than just grabbing a relative; it’s a Presidency, not a Monarchy.

They do. I'm thinking the poster was trying to make a Pakistan analogy, but the two countries have had dramatically different roads to their current political states.

I dare say Iran's was much smoother, even counting the Revolution and the 8 year war. One could say that Pakistan's been having a Revolution and War with itself for a few decades now.
 
Top